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MCKAY'S TRAVEL, OUTDOORS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Travel Blog
This is a good way for me to track and remember what I've done lately and in the past. A form of journaling. I have several reasons I blog, when I travel, when I spend time outdoors, when I enjoy any kind of experience and also when I eat/try new food.. Here are all of those posts. I usually post every month on average.


Athens Museums
I am not a big museum person. Usually I want to be out on the town, sight seeing or out in nature instead of inside a museum. However......
Mckay Jensen
May 10, 20241 min read


Insert Clever Title About Mykonos Here
Our last port of call on our trip was Mykonos, even though all the ports we went to were fantastic, this one was one of our favorites....
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May 7, 20241 min read


Kuşadasi + Ephesus
The 3rd different country we visited was Turkey. I was a little skeptical coming into this port but it was a pleasant surprise. The...
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May 7, 20241 min read


Money Can't Buy Happiness, But it Can Get You to Santorini
Probably the most anticipated stop of the trip was Santorini and it did not disappoint at all starting on the water below the cliffs the...
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May 5, 20241 min read


Next Stop - Cyprus!
After a long day at see, we had our next stop on the island and country of Cyprus. This stop is very underrated, we didnt hear a whole...
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May 4, 20241 min read


First Stop - Rhodes Greece
Our first real port of call after boarding the ship. We were looking forward to this port quite a bit and it did not disappoint! This day...
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May 3, 20241 min read


The Cliffside Monasteries of Meteora
Meteora was a bucketlist, once in a lifetime site we got to see on our trip. The stars aligned for us to be able to do this as it was...
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May 2, 20241 min read


The Acropolis of Athens + Ancient Agora
On day 2 in Athens we started early in the morning in an attempt to beat the crowds to the amazing acropolis. We walked up the hill and...
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May 1, 20241 min read


Athens City Center + Plaka + Anafiotika + Roman Agora
This was the first where we spent the first day of our big trip to Greece. We got into Athens and immediately hit the streets after...
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Apr 30, 20241 min read


Death Valley Rally
For our 5th anniversary we did a weekend trip through Las Vegas to Death Valley. Las Vegas was a blast, we were only there long enough...
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Feb 29, 20242 min read


Winter Campout Jan 2024
This was the first of hopefully many winter campouts in the Bookcliffs with the boys. We did a quick 1 night trip out to the dessert late Friday night. After setting up camp (A fire and a tarp out at the Jensens old campsite on East Bench Rd) we hung out around the fire, gathered enough wood for the night, filled up on some hot chocolate and went to bed. I kept very warm and comfy all night even though it got down to about -8C (18F) but could only sleep for a couple hours. I
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Feb 8, 20241 min read


Bloods Lake
Took one of the last chances of the year to do a hike without snow gear. After an hour of driving through the fall colors we stopped and...
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Oct 17, 20231 min read


Red Pine Lake + Gloria Falls
Was able to do one last hike in the Utah mountains before the snow came. Made it just by a day. The hike was about 8 miles and just under...
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Oct 13, 20231 min read


Mount Timpanogos Hike
The group finally decided to just do it and hike Mount Timp. I knew it was not going to be the easiest hike I have ever done but I was...
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Sep 25, 20231 min read


Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone was the 5th national park I have been to in the States and it was amazing. We only got to do the western half of the park as we were only there for a weekend. Overall the park was absolutely amazing and was extremely unique. We stayed in an overpriced but fun lodge the first night we got there and then set up camp for the next 2 nights in our tent. The camping was so fun and it was a great site, we found reservations at Madison Campground which is on the west side
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Sep 21, 20233 min read


Taylor Swift. Aug 3 2023.
After being a swifty for over 10 years I finally had the chance to go see her on tour. Allie and I bought tickets right when they came...
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Sep 18, 20231 min read


Los Angeles: Food, great. The rest, not so much.
Though our trip to LA was brief, we got to experience the food scene pretty well. We went to a couple street food markets, ate at some...
Mckay Jensen
Aug 16, 20231 min read


Uinta Canyon MkII
Got the Jensen side of the family together again this year for Pioneer Day weekend. Though most people were in and out for the weekend Allie, Pepsi and I were there for 3 full days and nights. The dispersed camping up throughout the canyon always has some great spots. This is for sure one of my favorite things that happens every year, spend time sleeping in a tent, sitting around the fire and eating meals and snacks. With the Uinta River running down the canyon and right pa
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Aug 7, 20231 min read


Clyde, Wall, Lilly, Cliff, North Twin, Booker, Watson, Petit, Linear... Lakes.
Did a quick and easy 6 mile hike throughout the mountains and lakes in the Uinta Mountains, there were so many lake that were named and...
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Jul 17, 20231 min read


Fifth Water Hot Springs
For the 4th of July this year, we decided to do an early morning hike to the hot springs in Spanish Fork Canyon. It was an easy 5 Mile...
Mckay Jensen
Jul 5, 20231 min read
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